Outcomes of colon and rectal cancer

The majority of patients presenting with advanced stage disease will succumb from metastatic disease that will go from liver to other structures e.g. lung. For these patients, the management is of their symptoms when and where they arise. Thus steroids may help distension of the liver by advanced hepatic metastases, radiotherapy may help specific bone metastatic pain and pain killers (analgesics) optimised for the patient should ensure that no patient will die in pain.